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The name of the city is derived from the Old / Middle High German term Munichen , meaning "by the monks". It derives from the monks of the Benedictine order , who ran a monastery at the place that was later to become the Old Town of Munich; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat of arms . Munich was first mentioned in 1158. Catholic Munich was a cultural stronghold of the Counter-Reformation and a political point of divergence during the resulting Thirty Years' War , but remained physically untouched despite an occupation by the Protestant Swedes . [7] [ citation needed ] Once Bavaria was established as a sovereign kingdom in 1806, it became a major European centre of arts, architecture, culture and science. In 1918, during the German Revolution , the ruling house of Wittelsbach , which governed Bavaria since 1180, was forced to abdicate in Munich and a short-lived socialist republic was declared.

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